{"id":130051,"date":"2025-03-24T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=130051"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:57:07","slug":"press-release-national-congress-of-american-indians-condemns-dismantling-of-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/03\/24\/press-release-national-congress-of-american-indians-condemns-dismantling-of-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: National Congress of American Indians condemns dismantling of Department of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">NCAI Condemns Executive Order to Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, March 24, 2025<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<em>The following is the text of a March 24, 2025, news release from the <a href=https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/>National Congress of American Indians<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) condemns the recent executive order to begin dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. NCAI calls the move reckless, politically motivated, and a direct threat to Native students, tribal sovereignty, and the federal government\u2019s trust and treaty obligations.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cLet us be clear: This is not just an administrative change \u2013 it\u2019s an attack on the fundamental right of Native students to a quality education that reflects their identity, history, and sovereignty,\u201d said NCAI President Mark Macarro. \u201cThe trust and treaty responsibilities of the United States are not optional. Dismantling the Department of Education is a betrayal to Native Nations and future generations.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NCAI strongly condemns the executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, calling it a direct threat to Native students and tribal sovereignty. Read our full statement and learn why this move endangers decades of progress.<br><br>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIsAhJ38YJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/LIsAhJ38YJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sM33T91UqB\">pic.twitter.com\/sM33T91UqB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Congress of American Indians (@NCAI1944) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAI1944\/status\/1904553064930980270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOver 90% of Native youth attend public schools, many of which rely on federal resources like Title VI and Johnson-O&#8217;Malley funding to support Native language preservation, cultural education, and academic success. Eliminating the federal agency responsible for delivering and safeguarding those resources would further marginalize Native students and destabilize tribal education systems.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThis move sends a dangerous message that Native students, their cultures, and their futures are expendable,\u201d said NCAI Executive Director Larry Wright, Jr. \u201cWe will not sit silently while centuries of progress in Native education are dismantled for political convenience. We demand the U.S. government honor its trust responsibilities and protect the rights of Native students.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nNCAI urges Congress to immediately reject any attempt to eliminate or weaken federal education support and act swiftly to defend Tribal Nations\u2019 rights to equitable, culturally grounded education.\r\n<img src=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/27\/nationalcongressofamericanindians.jpeg width=0 height=0 class=invisible>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is not just an administrative change \u2013 it\u2019s an attack on the fundamental right of Native students to a quality education that reflects their identity, history, and sovereignty,\u201d said NCAI President Mark Macarro.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,1,14,31],"tags":[170,1388,1601,2059,7,102],"class_list":["post-130051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-press-release","tag-congress","tag-ed","tag-larry-wright","tag-mark-macarro","tag-ncai","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/27\/nationalcongressofamericanindians.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-xPB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130067,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130051\/revisions\/130067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}